From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:56:53 -0700
Subject: net: ipv6: Make inet6addr_validator a blocking notifier
Patch-mainline: v4.15-rc1
Git-commit: ff7883ea60e7b021bcd6539b8211879554c8db9a
References: bsc#1112374

inet6addr_validator chain was added by commit 3ad7d2468f79f ("Ipvlan
should return an error when an address is already in use") to allow
address validation before changes are committed and to be able to
fail the address change with an error back to the user. The address
validation is not done for addresses received from router
advertisements.

Handling RAs in softirq context is the only reason for the notifier
chain to be atomic versus blocking. Since the only current user, ipvlan,
of the validator chain ignores softirq context, the notifier can be made
blocking and simply not invoked for softirq path.

The blocking option is needed by spectrum for example to validate
resources for an adding an address to an interface.

Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
---
 drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c |    4 ----
 net/ipv6/addrconf.c              |   21 ++++++++++++++-------
 net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c         |    9 +++++----
 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ipvlan/ipvlan_main.c
@@ -808,10 +808,6 @@ static int ipvlan_addr6_event(struct not
 	struct net_device *dev = (struct net_device *)if6->idev->dev;
 	struct ipvl_dev *ipvlan = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-	/* FIXME IPv6 autoconf calls us from bh without RTNL */
-	if (in_softirq())
-		return NOTIFY_DONE;
-
 	if (!netif_is_ipvlan(dev))
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf.c
@@ -989,7 +989,6 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, co
 	struct net *net = dev_net(idev->dev);
 	struct inet6_ifaddr *ifa = NULL;
 	struct rt6_info *rt = NULL;
-	struct in6_validator_info i6vi;
 	int err = 0;
 	int addr_type = ipv6_addr_type(addr);
 
@@ -1009,12 +1008,20 @@ ipv6_add_addr(struct inet6_dev *idev, co
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	i6vi.i6vi_addr = *addr;
-	i6vi.i6vi_dev = idev;
-	err = inet6addr_validator_notifier_call_chain(NETDEV_UP, &i6vi);
-	err = notifier_to_errno(err);
-	if (err < 0)
-		goto out;
+	/* validator notifier needs to be blocking;
+	 * do not call in atomic context
+	 */
+	if (can_block) {
+		struct in6_validator_info i6vi = {
+			.i6vi_addr = *addr,
+			.i6vi_dev = idev,
+		};
+
+		err = inet6addr_validator_notifier_call_chain(NETDEV_UP, &i6vi);
+		err = notifier_to_errno(err);
+		if (err < 0)
+			goto out;
+	}
 
 	ifa = kzalloc(sizeof(*ifa), gfp_flags);
 	if (!ifa) {
--- a/net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/addrconf_core.c
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ int __ipv6_addr_type(const struct in6_ad
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__ipv6_addr_type);
 
 static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(inet6addr_chain);
-static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(inet6addr_validator_chain);
+static BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD(inet6addr_validator_chain);
 
 int register_inet6addr_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
@@ -110,19 +110,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6addr_notifier_call_ch
 
 int register_inet6addr_validator_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-	return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&inet6addr_validator_chain, nb);
+	return blocking_notifier_chain_register(&inet6addr_validator_chain, nb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_inet6addr_validator_notifier);
 
 int unregister_inet6addr_validator_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-	return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&inet6addr_validator_chain, nb);
+	return blocking_notifier_chain_unregister(&inet6addr_validator_chain,
+						  nb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_inet6addr_validator_notifier);
 
 int inet6addr_validator_notifier_call_chain(unsigned long val, void *v)
 {
-	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&inet6addr_validator_chain, val, v);
+	return blocking_notifier_call_chain(&inet6addr_validator_chain, val, v);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(inet6addr_validator_notifier_call_chain);